Linaro divides its Roadmap into four yearly quarters punctuated by our Connect events, and this year our third quarter will be kicked off with a twist: instead of doing it physically at one location, we’ll instead be running a week of online discussions. Virtual Connect Q3.12 will run from August 13th to 17th, is open […]

Although Linaro is now only two years old and has already achieved substantial success, it seems like we have only just begun. Differentiation and innovation lie at the heart of the ARM ecosystem. The PC market was built on a single hardware platform. For a while it has looked like the tablet market would be […]

Last week during connect there was a lot of buzz about DS-5. After using it on Origen and Snowball for profiling android performance, I found DS-5 Streamline extremely useful for profiling apps and libraries in Android . I realized that this tool is extremely useful to application developers in finding hotspot in their applications. But […]

With the Q2.12 Linaro Connect starting on Monday 28 May, the list of Demos available for the public see and participate in during the Demo Friday event on 1 June is now available. Demos include: Big.LITTLE in-kernel Switcher (Linaro) SIProp – Combat Scouter – How much your Combat Power? (SIProp) Android Toolchain Improvements (Linaro) Origen Running Awesome […]

Those have been up and running for a while, but we never announced it, so it may well be news Nightly builds of the Linaro Android toolchain are now available at a constant URL. Builds of 3 branches are available: gcc 4.6, gcc 4.7 and gcc trunk (what will eventually become 4.8). At this time, […]

No, I promise, it’s not a Last-day-of-April-Fools joke. Linaro Android, built with the Linaro toolchain (my test build was done with the gcc 4.7 based 2012.04 Android toolchain release), can run on a Galaxy Nexus phones (GSM version tested, CDMA version may or may not work). There are a couple of limitations (GPS didn’t work, […]

Multimedia HW Acceleration from Origen In 12.03 release, Origen has a fully enabled Multimedia components with HW acceleration, this includes: 3D HW, Multimedia Video Playback and HDMI for Graphics and Video. This gives an invigorating user experience. The kernel version used is Linaro Kernel 3.0, and Linaro Android 4.0.3. All the multimedia components are released […]

Amit Pundir, Android Engineer at Linaro takes a moment to tell readers about what’s new in the Linaro 12.03 Android Origen release. Its been almost a week since Linaro 12.03 was released and I wanted to tell you about some of the new features being offered in the 12.03 Linaro Android Origen release. What’s new […]

Less than 24 hours after Android 4.0.4 appeared on Google’s servers, we’re pleased to announce the availability of a Linaro-ified Android 4.0.4. (This is not an official release – it’s the beginning of the 12.04 builds.) The complete source is available in our git repository – in linaro_android_4.0.4 branches in subprojects containing modifications by Linaro, […]